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Cenotaph record

David Owen Watson

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Headstone, Wellsford Cemetery (Photo John Halpin, 2011) - CC BY John Halpin

Headstone, Wellsford Cemetery (Photo John Halpin, 2011) - CC BY John Halpin

Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    David Owen AWMM
  • Surname
    Watson AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    2687 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi
  • Hapū
  • Waka
  • Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    • Unknown AWMM RD, Wellsford, North Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
    • Unknown AWMM RD, Wellsford, North Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
    • Jayforce Unknown AWMM RD, Wellsford, North Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    • Mr H.W. Watson (father), Wellsford, North Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
    • Mrs N.L. Watson (wife), Railway Street, Helensville, New Zealand AWMM
    • Jayforce Mrs N.L. Watson (wife), Wellsford, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Husband of Nola L. (809273),

    Member of the Wellsford RSA AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    25 April 1977 AWMM
    Age 66 AWMM
    New Zealand AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Wellsford Cemetery, 80 School Road, Wellsford, New Zealand AWMM Returned Servicemen's Section, Block 1 Row B Plot 30 Seq 1 Burial AWMM
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  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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  • References
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 1 (Embarkations to 31st March, 1940). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 1: WW2 191 AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 14 (Embarkations from 1st April, 1944 to 31st December, 1944). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 14: WW2 103 AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 14 (Embarkations from 1st April, 1944 to 31st December, 1944). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 16: WW2 139 AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1950). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 16 (Embarkations from 1st January, 1946 to 30th June, 1948). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      Cemetery register no. 487 AWMM
    • Wellsford Cemetery, 80 School Road, Wellsford, New Zealand AWMM
    • Loughnan, R. (1963). Divisional Cavalry. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch. AWMM
    • Brocklebank, L.W. (1997). Jayforce : New Zealand and the military occupation of Japan, 1945-48. Auckland, N.Z.: Oxford University Press. AWMM

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